Hello list, I have searched for some time now, but no result... I'm having the following problem:
In a module I have a huge number of classes of the form: class A(object): connected_to = [B, C] <other attributes...> class B(object) connected_to = [C] <other attributes...> class C(object) connected_to = [A] <other attributes...> As you see, classes A and B reference classes that are not yet defined when the class is being defined. It will raise a NameError: 'B'. I know i could solve this by leaving out the definition of 'connected_to' in A and attach it to the class later on by A.connected_to = [B, C] but I would like to avoid this, because in the module there are about 50 classes that have to be altered from time to time and it's just incredibly ugly if I have to look for the attribute definitions in more than one place. Also, I would like to avoid eval(), because the references have to be followed very often and that would cause more CPU load and make the program code uglier :) If anyone of you knows a neat way to solve this, I'd be very grateful. Greetings, Manuel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
